The Truman Show

The Truman Show (1998) is a movie directed by Peter Weir, written by Andrew Niccol, and starring Jim Carrey. Niccol was due to direct the film until Carrey was signed. It was felt that Carrey's $12 million salary was too great an investment to leave in the hands of a second-time film director, and Weir was drafted.

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A poster for the movie was one of the first widely-seen photomosaics. The soap opera As the World Turns would later model their signature globe after the photomosaic design seen in The Truman Show.

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Poster - Photomosaics - As the World Turns

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Most of the movie was filmed in the master-planned town of Seaside, Florida, near Panama City.

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Seaside, Florida - Panama City

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The name of the artificial place where Truman lives is "Seahaven Island".

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The film also explores the idea of a 24-hour on-air reality television program funded entirely by product placement. Everything seen on the show can be bought, and is listed in a catalog. The actors routinely break the fourth wall while addressing the TV audience with ads. This confuses the protagonist, who does not realise that he is part of a show. Products include:

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Product placement - Fourth wall

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• Mococoa - "All-natural chocolate drink, made from beans grown on the upper slopes of Mt. Nicaragua"
• Kaiser Chicken - ubiquitously advertised free-range chicken meat

Truman Burbank is said to have been the first child legally adopted by a corporation, Omnicam Corporation, which produces the show.

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The domed city used as a studio for the program is advertised as being one of the only two man-made objects visible from space, together with the Great Wall of China. There are also other man-made objects that can be seen from space, such as roads and canals.

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Domed city - Great Wall of China

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